THE ORB week

amnesia · Post by **amnesia** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 11:11 pm

40 minute Blue Room is so great and UFOrb is still an absolute masterpiece!

Must dig out my cassettes LX sent me back in 1990 of early versions of Orb tracks!

RESPEKT!

amnesia · Post by **amnesia** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 11:13 pm

FFWD is also a classic!

hollowman · Post by **hollowman** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:39 am

amnesia wrote:40 minute Blue Room is so great and UFOrb is still an absolute masterpiece!

Must dig out my cassettes LX sent me back in 1990 of early versions of Orb tracks!

RESPEKT!

They would be nice to hear.

I miss the "cassette sound"

rezzn8r · Post by **rezzn8r** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:31 am

amnesia wrote:40 minute Blue Room is so great and UFOrb is still an absolute masterpiece!

Must dig out my cassettes LX sent me back in 1990 of early versions of Orb tracks!

RESPEKT!

+1 for UFOrb
Had it on in the car the other day. Great stuff!

Norman_Phay · Post by **Norman_Phay** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 7:17 am

I don't care for them at all, I remember buying "uforb", based on reviews, I figured it sounded just like my kind of music, I actually really wanted to like it. I fucking hated it, it just seemed really stale, somehow half-assed, and smartarsed at the same time. I tried listening to it several times but hated it so much that in the end I gave it away. Everything else I ever heard by them I felt the same way about, clever-clever, but actually not clever in reality, totally unengaging, all surface, no depth etc etc. Sorry! I also hated the fact that in the UK at least, they had a critics-free-pass (see also, prml scrm, fsol).

neandrewthal · Post by **neandrewthal** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:22 pm

I Love Cydonia.

Entrainer · Post by **Entrainer** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:44 pm

Been listening to Live 93 recently.

And PRML SCRM, FSOL are also some of my faves.

F-critics. I stopped paying them any mind once I
met a few of them. Gah, words about music by people
who can't.

Personal taste, that's one thing. These fuckers wax poetic
using mythological history and semi-intelligent sounding
production knowledge that in reality doesn't pan out to
be truth.

I want to take their word vomit and shove it up their
metaphorical asses.

Ranxerox · Post by **Ranxerox** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 1:06 pm

Will always have a soft-spot for The Orb, and especially FSOL. Blew my mind back in the day, at the same time I was getting into Can, Roxy and Eno. Those were the days...

Ray Diode · Post by **Ray Diode** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:03 am

loved pommes frites, weird little album

Babaluma · Post by **Babaluma** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:56 am

i saw them a couple of times at the brixton academy around the uforb and live93 tours. amazing gigs. went off all their studio albums after that though. for me i still love to listen to the first two albums, ...ultraworld and uforb, but nothing else has floated my boat since.

i heard the lee perry/orb collaboration album recently, and was pretty appalled on many levels.

i have it on good authority that alex is a very, very sound guy though!

jenamu6 · Post by **jenamu6** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:26 am

LOVE the orb.

I tripped so many times on the live album......I can lucid dream the 2 cd's all together.

negativspace · Post by **negativspace** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:58 am

Saw them here in KS on the Orblivion tour, amazing show even if it was all on ADAT.

+1 on the FSOL love, too. One of my all-time favorites. The Amorphous Androgynous album really blew my mind when I was about 15 and I still listen to ISDN regularly.

Koelschysizer · Post by **Koelschysizer** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:12 am

Ultraworld + U.F. Orb !

8_)

Entrainer · Post by **Entrainer** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:16 am

negativspace wrote:Saw them here in KS on the Orblivion tour, amazing show even if it was all on ADAT.

I don't mind that as much. It's 16 tracks, console, FX.
With dub, the console is an instrument. I loved that tour.
SALT sounded fantastic where I hear it.

amnesia · Post by **amnesia** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:29 am

were any of their tours UFOrb era ever filmed?
I would have killed to see them live, but I did see AUtechre in 1994 with 30 people in Melbourne :-)

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:42 am

Any love for Orbus Terrarum? I always start off listening to that, thinking it sounds rather brilliant, as if you're being transported to exotic locations on an imaginary map (kind of the point...). Then, about halfway through, I get bored and stop paying attention, and eventually find myself relieved when I notice that its finally reached the end.

Maybe it would have worked better as an EP...

amnesia · Post by **amnesia** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:45 am

I didnt enjoy the Lee Perry Orb release at all.

UFOrb
FFWD
Pomme Fritz
Orbus
Orb Live 93
Ultraworld

Ranxerox · Post by **Ranxerox** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:19 am

Orbus Terrarum was.my first one, and tbh I still think it's their best album. I used to listen to it whenever I got sick - the only music I've ever held to have 'healing' properties. IIRC it was the culmination of Thrash's role the group, at about the same time as Pomme Fritz and the FFWD album - those three are their best work IMHO and were never equalled after he left.

CJ Miller · Post by **CJ Miller** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:13 am

deastman wrote:Any love for Orbus Terrarum?

I think it's their best! I met LX and Lewis in the 90s in Kenmore Square, Boston. There were loads or great record shops there at the time, I spent a whole day there crossing streets and cutting through alleys. Kept leapfrogging these two freaks all day. We talked a bit, but I didn't put together that they were The Orb until I saw them play later on. Another time, LX was at my place and in our stash when I wasn't there, which was yet another crazy story. I got home and found Polaroids of him and my roomie getting wild. NYC in around 93 at Roseland was extremely intense.
:mygod:

Anyway, I do find The Orb to be terribly uneven in the quality of their output. But there are I think there are some gems there. A lot of their remix work I really like also. Definitely some brilliant drum programming and dubology, though at times bogged down with aimlessness and excess.

opsysbug · Post by **opsysbug** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:31 pm

amnesia wrote:I didnt enjoy the Lee Perry Orb release at all.

UFOrb
FFWD
Pomme Fritz
Orbus
Orb Live 93
Ultraworld

and I love it. That golden clouds video!

xpander · Post by **xpander** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:26 pm

i caught their tour with the Chemical Brothers in Oakland years back, that was a fun show.

elmegil · Post by **elmegil** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:41 pm

Saw them and Shook LX's hand at Cabaret Metro in Chicago back in the day.

I still love Ultraworld best. UFOrb was good, but Ultraworld and all its singles were really a defining moment in my musical tastes.

MR-808 · Post by **MR-808** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:21 am

I'd love to get my hands on a multitrack of FFWD to remix it.

djrevmoon · Post by **djrevmoon** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:53 pm

Babaluma wrote:i saw them a couple of times at the brixton academy around the uforb and live93 tours. amazing gigs. went off all their studio albums after that though. for me i still love to listen to the first two albums, ...ultraworld and uforb, but nothing else has floated my boat since.

i heard the lee perry/orb collaboration album recently, and was pretty appalled on many levels.

i have it on good authority that alex is a very, very sound guy though!

To me, anything after Kris left the band is devoid of soul. UFOrb however is a masterpiece. Alex takes the credit for much but Kris (Thrash) and to a lesser extent Youth were fundamental. Unfortunately, Thrash is in a bit of tough spot at the moment although he is looking to produce and release some new stuff. I'll post here if/when that happens :-)

Dunno why they bothered to release that perry/alex thing, it's abominable.

Cheerio!

elmegil · Post by **elmegil** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:18 pm

Yah, after his work with Fortran 5 and Miranda Sex Garden it seemed like Kris disappeared entirely (as far as I could tell from stateside anyway). Any new work would be very welcome, I think.

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